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2262 and 1303, with a loaded Aurizon iron ore train, wait to cross an outbound empty train at Middleback Junction.
The various hills near Iron Knob can be seen on the horizon in the background.
Middleback Junction, SA.
Tuesday, 7 March 2023.
These rock fins I found two days after the previous photo, in a place four miles away. They are in a remote area of the Paria Plateau not likely visited by anyone. I have also found similar intact flakes eight miles away in another direction, and on West Clark Bench 8 miles in the opposite direction. The process that produced these covered a large area, even out to Valley of Fire, Nevada, 150 miles to the west.
Layers of Navajo sandstone, initially laid down horizontally, with alternating bands of hardness, were tilted up at an angle, causing them to erode in fantastic ways like this. The rock fins can stick out of the ground several feet in places (see previous photo).
Delicate and easily breakable, these fins would not last long if a busload of children came out here to play. Fortunately, the bad roads and hiking distances make heavy visitation unlikely. Some of the flakes may have been broken by cattle. If you ever explore out here, stay away and don't disturb them. Leave them for others to wonder at. I'm glad I had the opportunity to see these in their intact state.
On my YouTube channel, you can watch my "New Discoveries on the Paria Plateau" where I found these. Three episodes have been posted so far, and another is coming later this month.
A loaded spoil truck leaving a trackwork site parallel runs alongside 2301L leading 6W46, a Rockhampton to Longreach Linfox intermodal train.
Walton, Bluff, QLD.
Wednesday, 24 September 2025.
The Parallel Roads represent the shorelines of ice-dammed lakes. Typically they are narrow benches (several metres wide) cut into the bedrock of the hillsides and in places covered by remnants of lake beach gravel. They extend along much of Glen Roy and Glen Gloy and parts of Glen Spean. Probably they formed through a combination of intense frost weathering and wave action along the lake shore zone. The control of lake levels by the different cols allowed the lakes to persist for sufficiently long periods such that even the hard, Precambrian bedrock was broken up and eroded.
An ice field developed to the west of Glen Roy and the Great Glen, with a further ice centre to the south, over Rannoch Moor. Glaciers flowed eastwards along the glens from the ice field in the Western Highlands. One tongue of ice blocked the entrance to Glen Gloy, while another extended eastwards to block lower Glen Roy. Here it met a glacier that had extended into the middle section of Glen Spean. The blocking of Glen Spean led to a lake being impounded. As the glacier advanced up lower Glen Roy, it cut off a lake in this valley and the rising water eventually found its way across a pass.
A further advance of the glacier up Glen Roy resulted in the blocking of this exit for the water, and the lake rose further, to drain across the low ground at the head of the Roy and Spey glens. A lake at a higher level impounded in Glen Gloy drained through the head of this glen across a pass into Glen Roy. As the ice retreated, the overflows were unblocked in the reverse order; finally the ice dam broke near Spean Bridge and the lake drained away under the glacier very suddenly and rapidly towards the Great Glen
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Two parallel runs in two consecutive shots!
Leading its first mainline train of 2025, K183 accelerates away from South Yarra on the Caulfield Through lines, just barely out-pacing Metro Trains Comeng set 472M-1086T-471M-430M-1065T-431M running an up Sandringham Service as it leads A2 986 on train 8542, the return of Steamrail's first Moomba Shuttle to Glen Huntly. 9/3/25
Taken for the Saturday Self Challenge "Parallel"
A field of vines at one of the two Vineyards on the Isles of Scilly. The vines have to be netted to prevent birds from completely stripping the fruit.
Hubble's recent 28th anniversary observations also included some parallel observations which were not part of the photo release. I'm totally here for that.
In this image, reddish, orange light represents mostly gaseous emission of energized hydrogen atoms, and muted, blueish gray areas are largely reflected starlight. This combination of light results in an image quality I am very fond of, but I must confess it took me a very long time to understand it beyond oooh, pretty. Once one understands that parts of the clouds are emitting light, while other parts are simply reflecting light, the shapes and coloration begin to make more sense. They are not very different in some ways from water clouds seen on Earth, but our water clouds are most frequently seen reflecting the Sun's light, and not ever emitting their own light.
Interestingly, there are only two filters available to work with for the parallel observations. I wrongly guessed that the same filters used in the primary observations would end up being used in parallel. I don't know why.
The proposal for these data is here:
Optical and infrared imaging of the Lagoon Nebula (M8)
Orange: ACS/WFC F658N
Cyan: ACS/WFC F550M
North is merely 1.05° counter-clockwise from up.
early morning stroll along the beach, they're my tracks in the sand as no one else about, Lakshadweep Islands India